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2 unusual facts about Joseph P. Knapp


Currituck County, North Carolina

Joseph P. Knapp, publisher, philanthropist and namesake of the J.P. Knapp Early College High School.

Joseph P. Knapp

His father was a past president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and his mother was a hymn writer, credited with over 500 hymns, most notably "Blessed Assurance" with Fanny Crosby.


Ask Ann Landers

In that same article, she had noted that President John F. Kennedy's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., was anti-Semitic.

Celebrity Bowling

The weekly series was a by-product of The Celebrity Bowling Classic, a 90-minute TV special produced in 1969 for the Metromedia-owned stations, benefitting the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation.

Charles J. Knapp

He was elected as a Republican to the 51st United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1891.

Charles Knapp

Charles J. Knapp (1845–1916), his son, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York

Charles L. Knapp (1847–1929), member of the United States House of Representatives from New York

Daniel S. Schanck Observatory

The Schanck Observatory was dedicated on 18 June 1866 with an address given by Joseph P. Bradley (1813–1892), a Rutgers College alumnus (A.B. 1836) and prominent attorney who four years later was installed as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

David C. Knapp

He left both posts in 1968 to accept an appointment as dean of the New York State College of Home Economics.

David Nasaw

Following the success of Nasaw's 2000 biography of William Randolph Hearst, Senator Ted Kennedy approached Nasaw to write a biography of his father, Kennedy patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy.

Eastern Orthodox teaching regarding the Filioque

Joseph P. Farrell translator The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit by St Photius Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press Language: English ISBN 978-0-916586-88-1

Florence E.S. Knapp

She was a descendant of Ebenezer Hancock, librarian of Harvard University and brother of John Hancock.

Florence Knapp

Florence E.S. Knapp (c. 1870–1949), US politician and New York Secretary of State

Frank J. Dodd

The crowded field of 13 Democratic candidates included U.S. Representative James Florio, U.S. Representative Robert A. Roe, Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, Senate President Joseph P. Merlino, Attorney General John J. Degnan, and Jersey City Mayor Thomas F. X. Smith.

Gang of Seven

The Republican charges were largely ignored until July 1993, when the Congressional Postmaster Robert Rota pleaded guilty to three criminal charges, implicating Representatives Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) and Joe Kolter (D-PA).

Joe Kennedy, Jr.

Not to be confused with Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., older brother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy

John J. Degnan

The crowded field of 13 Democratic candidates included U.S. Representative James Florio, Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, New Jersey Senate President Joseph P. Merlino, U.S. Representative Robert A. Roe, and Jersey City Mayor Thomas F. X. Smith.

John M. Dunn

He established underworld connections including Joseph P. Ryan, who had sponsored him for union membership, and Meyer Lansky who had been in discussions regarding the use of the longshoremen's union to assist in the importation of heroin and cocaine into the United States.

Joseph F. Weis, Jr.

Two years later, on March 11, 1970, Weis was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania vacated by Joseph P. Willson.

Joseph P. Dyer

title = Mayor of Sacramento, California

Joseph P. Ebacher

At the time of his death he was planning a foreign study program in Chartres, France; his travel there in 1973 was undoubtedly a high point of his professional life.

Joseph P. Farrell

Farrell states that his books on Giza "takes off where Christopher Dunn's 'The Giza Power Plant' left off."

Joseph Patrick Farrell is an American theologian, scholar on the East–West Schism and the author of a number of books on alternative history, history, historical revisionism, archaeology, and science/physics.

Joseph P. Foley

Foley practised law with James Albert Manning Aikins and later with Tupper, McTavish, Foley and Tupper.

Joseph P. Fyffe

Rear Admiral Joseph S. Skerrett was due to retire upon reaching the age of 62 on 18 January 1895, but in order to make room for Fyffe to be promoted, Skerrett voluntarily requested an earlier retirement based on time in service.

Joseph P. Johnson

Johnson ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1968, losing the 9th congressional district race to the Republican incumbent, William C. Wampler.

Joseph P. Kerwin

Kerwin is co-author, along with fellow astronaut Owen Garriott and writer David Hitt, of Homesteading Space, a history of the Skylab program published in 2008.

Kerwin is married to the former Shirley Ann Good of Danville, Pennsylvania.

Joseph P. Lordi

Gov. Richard Hughes named him as Director of the New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Commission, and in 1968 as the Essex County Prosecutor, replacing Brendan Byrne.

Joseph P. Merlino

The crowded field of 13 Democratic candidates included U.S. Representative James Florio, Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, U.S. Representative Robert A. Roe, Attorney General John J. Degnan, and Jersey City Mayor Thomas F. X. Smith.

Joseph P. Moran

On September 26, 1935, a badly decomposed body washed up on the shores of Crystal Beach, Ontario, without its hands and feet.

When the Barker-Karpis Gang kidnapped and ransomed Minnesota banker Edward Bremer for $200,000, Moran helped launder the money through his practice in Chicago.

Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park

The stadium is named after Charleston's longest serving (and current) mayor, Joseph P. Riley, Jr..

Joseph P. Vigorito

Vigorito was the only Democrat to represent the Erie area in the 20th century; after his loss, no Democrat represented it until Kathy Dahlkemper won it in 2008.

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

Ma's drunken new husband Arthur Dunlop is murdered when he blabs about their activities, as is corrupt mob-doctor "Dr. Guelffe" (based on Joseph P. Moran).

Nathaniel Fillmore

He was the first of only four fathers (the other three being Dr. George Tryon Harding, Sr., Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and George H. W. Bush) to live through the entire presidency of a son.

Nick Theodore

At the conclusion of Campbell's two terms in office, Theodore ran for Governor in 1994, defeating Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. to secure the Democratic nomination.

Puerto Casado

In 1931 the Command Infantry Division was installed at the port, José Félix Estigarribia accepted the post of Commander that he proposed the then president Joseph P. Guggiari since late July, 1931 Estigarribia was already installed there.

Robert A. Baruch Bush

Together with Joseph Folger of Temple University he is the originator, and best known advocate, of the transformative model of mediation.

Robert D. Knapp

Knapp went to the United Kingdom with his unit, the 92d Aero Squadron (Bombardment), in August 1918, but failed to see action in World War I due to a late shipment of propellers for his unit's Handley Page O/400 bombers.

Robert Knapp

Robert D. Knapp (1897–1994), aviator and brigadier general, US Air Force

Robert Miller Montague

After retiring from the Army the younger Montague served as executive director of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and the Special Olympics.

Theodore H. White

White graduated from Harvard in 1938 summa cum laude (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was a classmate), with a degree in Chinese history and studies, the first student of John K. Fairbank.

Vinton, Louisiana

The second, and most important for Vinton, was the arrival of a physician and former professor from Indiana and Iowa named Dr. Seaman A. Knapp.

Wesley M. Knapp

Gratiola brevifolia (Plantaginaceae) New to the Flora of Delaware, the Delmarva Peninsula and the Mid-Atlantic.

Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy

Based upon the biography by Hank Searls called The Lost Prince: Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy, the film chronicles the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., the unlucky older brother of John F. Kennedy.


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